Saturday, June 12, 2010

Live Blogging Nationwide Series From Kentucky (7:30PM ET - ESPN)

The Nationwide Series is in Kentucky for a stand-along race on ESPN. The weather has been rainy all day and NASCAR is hoping to get this one in tonight.

Allen Bestwick will host the NASCAR Countdown pre-race show. He will be joined by Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugherty. The program will be thirty minutes.

Wallace will then make his way up to the booth to join Marty Reid and Andy Petree to call the race. This team has already handled the qualifying that aired on ESPN earlier Saturday. On pit road are Dr. Jerry Punch, Jamie Little, Dave Burns and Vince Welch.

Reid and Bestwick are a powerful combination for ESPN and the network must be happy with the results so far this season. One continuing struggle is Rusty Wallace up in the TV booth. Just like he did back in 2007, Wallace cannot divorce himself from his racing past and current ownership status.

ESPN has come a long way with the directing and producing of these telecasts. Tonight should be a good opportunity to showcase the Nationwide regulars and show the racing under the lights.

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hey is there any truth to what I saw on Jayski about the Sprint Cup cars and how Ford will switch to Mustang in Cup and Dodge to the Challenger??? Plus there getting rid of the splitter braces? This is great to hear, and I always wondered why are they doing this in Nationwide first??? Well Danica will be a big draw for new fans and it will warm them up good call Nascar. sorry to get off topic but just curious if anyone has heard anything???

its all good! Im ok with Toyota with all the money they poor into the sport, plus my mom drives one and its pretty nice! Me im a Ford man myself but I know talent when I see it! I say Brian Scott is the next Carl Edwards

@Tracy - For the standalone races, KHI decided to go with a veteran instead of young drivers so they wouldn't lose too much ground in the owner standings. Bliss has done an awesome job, but then again he always does.

This is the first year we have missed the race at Kentucky. I am shocked at the empty seats! Not sure what is going on, but they always have had issues with the parking lots. In dry weather it is miserable and with all of the rain we have had, that could have kept the fans away. We love the track; it's a great facility other than the parking.

70 laps in and the race is a snoozer. The booth is talking about everything except the race, sometimes while the truck is showing something else. Too many tight shots and in-car cameras. Seems like someone is backsliding into last year's ESPN style.

Wish the Mickey Mouse leaderboard would actually tell you what lap the caution came out on ...

Man ... Tayler is not having any luck in Nwide ... Finishes 11th last week & hit with the 25pt penalty ... big wreck tonight ... I wish he would've stayed with Cunningham / CHS as they were the Penske development team ...

getting somewhat better! Why does it always seem like the "director" is spot on sometimes and spot off most of the time???? I know all the networks dont use the same director but Fox was the same way.... On sometimes then off sometimes??? TNT Was on for the first 60% of the Pocono race then they fell apart? Now today Bad to ok whats the deal????? Should we ask Mr Spencer??? LOL jk

jd I will have to check out Le Mans after the Nationwide race but will say last time I was watching it was dusk and the yellow and white lights made it very hard to watch.... Wasnt watching it in HD so I dont know if that makes a difference? But will watch after this

I saw a comment several weeks ago which I took to mean that Randy L. might have had a hip replacement since the 1st of the year. If that is correct, I wonder whether that makes travel to races too uncomfortable for him to work the booth?